Examine your assumptions and information
Examine assumptions, uncertainty and the quality of information reaching senior decision-makers.
A PRACTICAL EXERCISE
Test a decision where the board receives a selectively reassuring risk account.
Executives and board members
Make sound decisions when other people carry the consequences.
Leaders in Industry · A Greatness Project short course
A course for senior executives, board members, regulators and industry leaders. Through confidential peer discussion and practical scenarios, they examine difficult decisions, challenge assumptions and consider the people affected.
What participants learn
- Question assumptions before a high-consequence decision.
- Invite useful challenge within a confidential peer group.
- Examine the lasting effects of decisions on people and institutions.
WHY THIS COURSE
Practise before
the pressure rises.
Senior decisions affect employees, institutions and public trust. Yet senior leaders may have fewer places to question their own thinking. This course provides structured practice and confidential peer discussion around judgement, competing responsibilities and long-term consequences.
SITUATIONS PARTICIPANTS WORK THROUGH
01A board receiving incomplete or selectively sanitised intelligence.
02An attractive commercial decision with an undisclosed stakeholder cost.
03A public failure followed by pressure to defend, conceal or learn.
LEADERS IN INDUSTRY / COURSE CONTENT
What is taught.
Six areas of learning, using examples relevant to this group. A facilitator guides discussion and practice.
Act with integrity when duties compete
Distinguish principled action from recklessness and pragmatism from compromise.
A PRACTICAL EXERCISE
Make benefit, cost and responsibility explicit in a difficult choice.
Recognise how pressure shapes your leadership
Recognise how pressure influences leadership posture and culture.
A PRACTICAL EXERCISE
Respond without exporting fear or substituting certainty for judgement.
Use confidential peer challenge
Use a governed peer space to challenge isolation and test reasoning.
A PRACTICAL EXERCISE
Examine a bounded scenario without disclosing sensitive organisational information.
Respond to failure responsibly
Learn from strategic failure without making defensiveness the institution’s default.
A PRACTICAL EXERCISE
Distinguish protecting reputation from restoring trust.
Consider your long-term impact
Consider how decisions outlive tenure and shape succession and trust.
A PRACTICAL EXERCISE
Articulate principles that should remain defensible after you leave.
WHAT PARTICIPANTS TAKE AWAY
Tools and actions
to use afterwards.
- A private reflection workbook for senior leadership decisions.
- A repeatable approach to assumptions, trade-offs and consequences.
- Confidential peer-only dialogue in the selected journey.
- A personal stewardship and legacy reflection.
- Continued facilitated reflection according to scope.
The course develops these skills through practice. Lasting change also depends on support and the conditions participants return to.
FOR THE SCHOOL OR ORGANISATION
How this supports
your people.
- Strengthen the human judgement through which governance operates.
- Support stewardship, continuity and trust.
- Create reflective space without performance surveillance.
DURATION & SUPPORT
Choose how much
follow-up you need.
Every option begins with a guided workshop. Workshop length, group size, dates and fees are agreed before booking.
Ignition
Workshop and next steps
Practise realistic situations, receive a private reflection workbook and leave with initial actions.
No ongoing 90-day or 180-day support.
Ask about this optionFormation
Workshop + 90-day practice
Continue with guided discussions, personal practice, scheduled check-ins and a review of progress.
For groups that want help applying the learning.
Ask about this optionStewardship
Workshop + 180-day support
Allow more time for practice, feedback and planning how useful lessons will support future groups.
180 days in total. The support is agreed for your group.
Ask about this optionUnsure which option fits? Tell us who the course is for and what you want them to learn. We will explain the suitable options before preparing a proposal.
HOW TO ARRANGE THIS COURSE
Tell us about
your group.
A board, executive committee, industry or professional body, regulator, public institution or authorised convenor commissions the cohort. Group size and confidentiality arrangements are agreed before booking.
- Send an enquiry with the group and training need.
- Discuss the course, format and follow-up.
- Review the proposal with dates, fees and responsibilities before booking.
Practical details
What are the entry requirements?
CEOs, senior executives, board leaders, regulators and industry-body leaders. Selective peer, sector and bespoke institutional cohorts are scoped for confidentiality and conflicts.
What is included in the proposal?
Workshop length, group size, facilitator, delivery setting, materials, follow-up, dates and fees. These are confirmed before any booking.
How is privacy protected?
This is not legal advice, executive coaching, board evaluation, investigation or governance certification. Confidentiality does not override lawful, fiduciary, professional or safeguarding duties. Cross-organisation groups do not exchange competitively sensitive information. Private journals are not collected for selection, employment or sponsor reporting.
Will a board or sponsor receive participant reports?
No organisational reporting of formation conversations or private reflections is provided. Administrative scope is agreed separately. Confidentiality remains subject to lawful and professional duties. This is not board evaluation or governance certification.
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